Big Summer Library Stock Move part III

If you've been in the Library this week, you may have noticed we've been moving things around. This is the start of the 'Big Summer Library Stock Move part III'. 

By the end of the summer items will be in the following locations:

• Pamphlets will be moved from the Reading Room up to the Gallery
• Books currently shelved in the Gallery and the Barnard Room will be shelved together downstairs. They will run round the Reading Room, round the Photocopy Room and round the Barnard Room.

This means that all books published after 2000 will be downstairs, in one place and we hope it will make things more accessible and easier for you to find.

Obviously there will be some disruption while we're moving everything around, with books and phamplets shelved in multiple locations. If you can't find something, please ask a member of Library staff for help. 

Cataloguing the HIV/AIDS collection

After completing my first month in position as cataloguing archivist on the HIV/AIDS collections at the LSHTM I thought I’d give a quick post about my impressions and plans for the duration of the project. I will be updating the LSHTM library blog over the course of the project with news on the progress and highlighting some of the archival gems from the collections.

What does the AIDS archive contain?

The LSHTM HIV/AIDS archive contains six separate collections that represent some of the epidemiological and social policy research that the School has supported since the 1980s these include:

•     Personal papers of the current LSHTM Director, Professor Baron Peter Piot, covering his career both as a pioneering medical research on HIV/AIDS (1982-1993) in Africa and his later work as Director of UNAIDS (1996-2008).

•     The papers of Professor Virginia Berridge chiefly relating to her involvement in the AIDS Social History Programme (1987-1994) documenting and evaluating UK government response to the crisis as it happened and capturing and documenting the response of the media and key protagonists during this period.

•     The papers of Professor Kaye Wellings and her work relating to the European Commission project, Concerted Action: Assessing AIDS Prevention Strategies, that was a longitudinal study from 1988-1998, that collected and evaluated AIDS awareness campaign material from across Europe.

•     Collected research material from Project SIGMA (Socio-Sexual Investigations of Gay Men and AIDS) conducted from 1989-2009, that provides comprehensive grey literature on AIDS alongside anonymised diaries of sexual behaviour.

The collections represent the interwoven and complex strands of the disease combining classic epidemiology with the social and political consequences in both a UK and a global context.

 
First steps


Before undertaking cataloguing the collections my first task is to box list and repackage the archival material. These are the first steps in the cataloguing process as it is necessary to both have clear understanding of the current internal arrangement of each collection and to have carried out the necessary preservation work beforehand so as not to disrupt future arrangement. One of my initial tasks will be the repackaging of the Centre for Sexual and Reproductive Health Research poster collections. These posters, spanning from the 1980s-1990s, are one of the jewels of the collection as they represent the various different government responses to AIDS within Europe. An Estonian example below shows how AIDS was sometimes represented with the same iconography as the plague in medieval times.

In total there are over 700 posters within the collection along with a variety of AIDS awareness campaign literature and ephemera. It is a fascinating collection and will explore the contents more in later posts but for now I will leave you with a few images of a recent display of some of the ephemera in the collection. 

A selection of our AIDS posters (do not worry these are copies of the originals!)

A selection of ephemera from the Centre for Sexual adn Reproductive Health AIDS collection with postcards, condom packets, booklets, badges and a sterile needle kit.

‘Preparing your thesis’ training

All Research Degree students submitting their thesis after the 1^st October 2013 are encouraged to attend this session.  It will prepare you for submitting an open access thesis, covering issues around copyright, data management and data protection.  The training will give an insight into supporting open access publishing, something you will increasingly encounter during and after your studies.  Making your thesis open access will bring huge advantages to yourself and the research community at large by increasing the visibility of your work. 

The sessions are held in the Library between 10am and 12 noon on the following dates:

Wednesday 10^th July

Thursday 18^th July

Tuesday 10^th September 

There is no need to book, just come along.    

Top 10 downloads from LSHTM Research Online - June 2013

Below is a list of the 10 most downloaded papers for June 2013 from LSHTM Research Online, the School’s publically accessible online database of research conducted by staff from the School. 

Ederle, J; Dobson, J; Featherstone, RL; Bonati, LH; van der Worp, HB; de Borst,
GJ; lo, TH; Gaines, P; Dorman, PJ; MacDonald, S; +337 more... (2010) Carotidartery stenting compared with endarterectomy in patients with symptomatic carotidstenosis (International Carotid Stenting Study): an interim analysis of a randomised controlled trial. Lancet, 375 (9719). pp. 985-997

Carpenter, R; McGarvey, C; Mitchell, EA; Tappin, DM; Vennemann, MM; Smuk, M;
Carpenter, JR; (2013) Bed sharing when parents do not smoke: is there a risk ofSIDS? An individual level analysis of five major case–control studies. BMJ Open, 3. e002299.
 
Okumu, FO; (2012) Combining insecticide treated bed nets and indoor residual spraying for malaria vector control in Africa. PhD thesis, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.

Perel, P; Salman, RAS; Kawahara, T; Morris, Z; Prieto-Merino, D; Roberts, I;
Sandercock, P; Shakur, H; Wardlaw, J; (2012) CRASH-2 (Clinical Randomisationof an Antifibrinolytic in Significant Haemorrhage) intracranial bleeding study: theeffect of tranexamic acid in traumatic brain injury - a nested, randomised, placebocontrolled trial. Health technology assessment (Winchester, England), 16 (13). 1-+

UNAIDS/WHO/SACEMA Expert Group on Modelling the Impact and Cost , C;
Hargrove, J; Williams, B; Abu-Raddad, L; Auvert, B; Bollinger, L; Dorrington, R;
Ghani, A; Gray, R; Hallett, T; +11 more... (2009) Male circumcision for HIVprevention in high HIV prevalence settings: what can mathematical modellingcontribute to informed decision making? PLoS medicine, 6 (9). e1000109.

Nguyen, NM; Tran, CN; Phung, LK; Duong, KT; Huynh, HL; Farrar, J; Nguyen, QT; Tran, HT; Nguyen, CV; Merson, L; +15 more... (2012) A Randomized, Double-Blind Placebo Controlled Trial of Balapiravir, a Polymerase Inhibitor, in Adult Dengue Patients. The Journal of infectious diseases. 

Paterson, P; Larson, HJ; (2012) The role of publics in the introduction of newvaccines. Health policy and planning, 27 Suppl 2. ii77-ii79.
 
Vats, S; Murthy, GV; Chandra, M; Gupta, SK; Vashist, P; Gogoi, M; (2008)
Epidemiological study of ocular trauma in an urban slum population in Delhi, India.
Indian journal of ophthalmology, 56 (4). pp. 313-6.

Steinbach, R; Green, J; Edwards, P; (2012) Look who's walking: Social andenvironmental correlates of children's walking in London. Health & place.

Gogate, P; Soneji, FR; Kharat, J; Dulera, H; Deshpande, M; Gilbert, C; (2011)
Ocular disorders in children with learning disabilities in special education schools of Pune, India. Indian journal of ophthalmology, 59 (3). pp. 223-228.

If you are an LSHTM author and would like find out how you can make your research available in LSHTM Research Online see our FAQs or contact us.  

Library Opening Hours Tuesday 9th July

The Library will be closing at 12pm on Tuesday 9th July for the School's Annual Picnic in Regent's Park. The Library will re-open as normal at 8.30am on Wednesday 10th July.

Is Nutrition Growing Up?

The Archives joined the Nutrition debate: http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/events/2013/06/is-nutrition-growing-up through a talk which discussed 75 yrs of  LSHTM contributions to nutrition through the eyes of Cicely Williams.
Williams was a student of the School and a pioneering advocate of breastfeeding, who in 1930s discovered a link between sudden weaning and malnutrition.



Student photograph 1928-9, including Cicely Williams, 3rd row, in black coat

 Williams joined the Colonial Service and spent 7 years working in East Africa, identifying the condition she named as 'Kwashiorkor', taken from the Ga language, and meaning the rapid weaning of a child on the birth of a sibling. In 1936 she was  posted to Malaya where she continued to work in the area of child and maternal health.
In 1942 she was interened in the Changi Prison of War camp where she observed and researched malnutrition at first hand.

Malnourished prisoners photographed by Dean Smith, Stanley Camp 1940s

The Nutrition Collection at LSHTM  holds papers of research undertaken by interned nutritionists, including Dean Smith,   who were  held in POW camps in Hong Kong during WW2.  Like Williams, they continued to research whilst being interned. 



Rice grinding at Stanley Camp


The unique wartime papers are available for research from the archives. See our web pages
http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/library/ to access the online catalogue.

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According to SherpaRomeo  Elsevier publishes 1889 journals including the Lancet so the likelihood of you publishing in one of their journals is very high. Elsevier is a subscription publisher so in order to read the research they publish you will need to either be at an institution that has a subscription or purchase daily access to the article (roughly $30 per day). To ensure that your research reaches more readers we ask you to send through to researchonline@lshtm.ac.uk your author accepted manuscript.

So what is this? Sometimes it is known as the ‘post-print’ or ‘author accepted manuscript’. This is the version of your article that has been accepted by the journal after it has been peer reviewed. It cannot have any publisher pagination or branding on it. Usually it will be in a word format. If you send this through to us we will convert to pdf and once it has been deposited into LSHTM Research Online anyone can read and access that article. In fact once you have had your article accepted please just send through this version and once the article is published we will make it available. We will of course have a direct link to the publisher’s final pdf so that if someone does have a subscription to the journal then they can still read that version.